[clug] Being polite on the list - or: Geek Feminism 101

[Jack Kelly]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM, David Tulloh<david at tulloh.id.au> wrote:
> Jack Kelly wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:56 AM, David Tulloh<david at tulloh.id.au> wrote:
>>> Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>> n.b. What is the 'male' equivalent of 'feminism'? menimism? minism?
>>> chauvinism
>> I'm offended by that*.
>> -snip-
> This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I shouldn't send emails late when tired.
>
> For some reason I read the original post as, "What is the opposite of
> feminism?"... or some equivalent.  Which leads you off on all sorts of
> wonderful different paths depending on what you opposite.

No worries. I wasn't actually offended, I just found it a useful
example to use in an examination of "offence is in the eye of the
beholder". Everyone's agreed that this thread's over, anyway.

-- Jack